Fluke Tabs added

[Aquattro]

Update. It appears that the tabs may have in fact killed the blue cloves. Now, before you run out and find some tabs, be careful with how much "dead" you want in your tank. I figure I had enough cloves to cover 12 sq. ft. Now that it's all dying or dead, I "may" have a bit a water quality issue. By bit, I mean my tank is cloudy, smelly, skimmer going nuts water quality issues. Mixing a new 50g bin right now, I'll probably need to change out 200g of water by the end of the week end.
While this is what I might consider bad, it was somewhat expected with the amount if life I was killing in a closed system.
Hopefully it doesn't continue downhill, or it might mean I nuked my whole tank.
For a few polyps(less than 100k ), fine, but in a large tank with every surface covered, it's not really the smartest thing you could do

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Update. It appears that the tabs may have in fact killed the blue cloves. Now, before you run out and find some tabs, be careful with how much "dead" you want in your tank. I figure I had enough cloves to cover 12 sq. ft. Now that it's all dying or dead, I "may" have a bit a water quality issue. By bit, I mean my tank is cloudy, smelly, skimmer going nuts water quality issues. Mixing a new 50g bin right now, I'll probably need to change out 200g of water by the end of the week end.
While this is what I might consider bad, it was somewhat expected with the amount if life I was killing in a closed system.
Hopefully it doesn't continue downhill, or it might mean I nuked my whole tank.
For a few polyps(less than 100k ), fine, but in a large tank with every surface covered, it's not really the smartest thing you could do

OMG your brave.. Your tank is so nice!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

OMG your brave.. Your tank is so nice!

Ya, brave is one word you could use. Not the one I'm going with, but I'll take it
The tank, or rather the whole room smells like dying crap...skimmer had chunks in it like I've never seen before. But all the critters seem fine, and no browning of the SPS (yet). I'll do another 25% WC tomorrow and try to siphon off some of the dead polyp tissue. It's really ugly right now.

[MMAX]

Just how many of those little buggers did you have in your tank? By the sounds of things you must have had plauge proportions over every square inch. I try to keep mine in check as much as possible, but they have started growing up the sides and back of my center overflow where I can't get to them. Maybe mine won't be as bad if I nail them now.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by MMAX

Just how many of those little buggers did you have in your tank?

Every piece of bare rock was thick with them, and the back glass, part of the front glass, all along the front sand and on all the pumps and overflow. If you're going to try and kill them, do it while they're manageable. I knew that doing this would put a heavy load on the tank, but figured it was in pretty good health and could handle it. So far everything is coping ok, but I need to assess the livestock every 6 hours minimum and be prepared to do emergency water changes with tap water and crap salt

[Aquattro]

Further update: The tabs did in fact kill the polyps, and a thorough scrubbing with a toothbrush, followed by several filter socks cleaned up the tank nicely. Other than the 2 cleaner shrimp, no casualties. Corals are fine, fish are fine and tank is clear again. Haven't tested for NO3, I think my kit expired in 2006, so I'll just watch the corals.

[dreef]

GREAT news Brad,i was waiting for an update.I know your tank is loaded with sps,and i'm an acropora addict.All i was doing was trying to help,i would have been crushed if i crashed your tank.